Class Three Class Three

Funny Bones

Why is he famous?

We started our topic by focussing on the famous runner Usain Bolt.

Just how fast is he?

We learned that • His 100m time of 9.58 seconds during the

2009 World Championships in Berlin is the current world record.

We tried to run as fast…..

We were better at his ‘signature move.’

We researched how he can run so fast and discovered that…

John Barrow at Cambridge University who has previously analysed how Bolt could become even faster, explained his "extraordinary large stride length", despite having such an initial slow reaction time to the starting gun.

He has lots of fast twitch muscle fibres that can respond quickly, coupled with his vast stride is what gives him such an extraordinary fast speeds.

We wrote reports about his amazing achievements

This led us on to thinking all about our own skeletons

We grouped different skeletons

The hydrostatic skeleton, exoskeleton, and endoskeleton support, protect, and provide movement to the bodies of different types of animals

We thought about how many bones are there in the human body? 206

This led us onto some math work focussing on word problems.

And using a tape measure

to measure different parts of our bodies.

We know that skeletons are very important to make our

bodies work. But we also thought about the

importance of muscles.

Muscles and joints What do you think a joint is?

A: A joint is where two bones meet. It can be movable or fixed.

Q: Why do you think we have joints?

A: If we did not have joints we would find simple tasks like eating very difficult. Any movement needing bending would be impossible!!!!

After learning all about the skeleton we moved onto learning about an artist who focussing on

the human form

Alberto Giacometti

We used the IPADS to find out that

He was also a friend of Pablo Picasso

• We initially looked at the different shapes Usain Bolt’s skeleton made during a race.

We decided to recreate our own Giacometti sculpture

We started by bending metal coat hangers into different running shapes

Next we covered our sculptures in pipe cleaners…

We then covered them in tin foil..

And then we displayed them around school

Don’t they look fantastic!

We now really understand just how clever our bodies are!